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Dozens of bouquets lined a sidewalk in 2015 after the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

FOCUS, Campbell:  Book on Emanuel shootings is important to read

A review by Reba Hull Campbell, special to Charleston Currents  | Rarely does a book appeal to all my “reading” senses – well written, important message, compelling story and human connections. “Grace Will Lead Us Home” about the shootings at Emanuel A.M.E. Church was one of them.

Back in June, I listened to an interview on the SC Lede podcast on SC Public Radio with the author of the book, Jennifer Berry Hawes. She’s a reporter for The Post and Courier who witnessed first-hand many of the details surrounding this tragedy.

After hearing Hawes’ podcast, I knew I had to read the book. And I knew I had to buy it and not just borrow it from the library or listen on Audible. I had a feeling it would be one of those books I’d want to mark up and re-read.

Once I got started on the book, I just couldn’t stop. …

FOCUS, Wentworth:  From Nuremberg to Pittsburgh

FOCUS, Wentworth:  From Nuremberg to Pittsburgh

By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor  |   In 2016, the lawyers from the International Criminal Court asked me to write a poem for the 70th Anniversary of the closing of the military tribunals at Nuremberg. At the time, I was finishing writing the book We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel, immersed in the unfathomable grief of the families and survivors. Charleston was still recovering from one of the worst hate crimes in American history

The links between racism and anti-Semitism are innumerable. In fact, the NAACP has Jewish roots.  The organization was founded by both black and white civil rights activists, including a Jewish man named Henry Moskowitz.  …

11/12: Mourning gun victims; S.C. House races; YallFest; More

11/12: Mourning gun victims; S.C. House races; YallFest; More

IN THIS ISSUE   |  Nov. 12, 2018  

FOCUS, Wentworth: From Nuremberg to Pittsburgh  
COMMENTARY, Brack: S.C. House races need to be more competitive
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: S.C. Ports Authority
GOOD NEWS:  Changes ahead at the S.C. House
PHOTO ESSAY:  YallFest
FEEDBACK: Latest commentary was spot on
MYSTERY PHOTO:  A bridge to somewhere
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA:  Sweetgrass baskets
CALENDAR: Gospel Christmas set for Dec. 1

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BRACK:  More gun violence prompts reprint of 2016 column

BRACK:  More gun violence prompts reprint of 2016 column

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  After the Orlando shootings, my wife wrote a letter to several newspaper editors that made me think.  

She boiled all of the back and forth about escalating gun violence in America into a simple, salient point that many seem to have missed:  It’s become an issue of national security.  

The glut of guns solely made for killing people — handguns and assault rifles —  is changing America into a country where fearful people feel they need more and bigger guns to protect themselves.  They respond to patronizing rhetoric from groups like the National Rifle Association who taunt that the federal government is going to take away people’s guns.  Throughout the seven years of President Obama’s term, we’ve heard such chants time and time again, yet Obama hasn’t taken away guns.

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